Social welfare and social services

Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs.

What is counselling and how can it help?

This book offers a critical reflection on the ways in which migration has shaped Australia's cities, especially over the past twenty years.

This edited book was produced through a transnational and transdisciplinary UNESCO Chair Project on Gender and Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction Support.

How to be a Researcher provides a strategic guide to the conduct of a successful research career within a university environment.

This book synthesizes the most current evidence-based research and practices on prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment of pediatric intellectual developmental disabilities.

Case Studies in School Psychology is the first textbook to comprehensively introduce the NASP Practice Model through active discussion of real-life, school-based examples of issues facing school psychologists.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

Teamfähigkeit und Sozialkompetenz sind grundlegende Werte, die Einsatzkräfte von Feuerwehren und anderen Hilfsorganisationen erfüllen sollten.

Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of 'parenting'.

First published in 1999, The Management of Child Protection Services is not about child abuse but about child protection.

Here is a one-of-a-kind resource for professionals who prepare and lead group activities for impaired older adults.

Over the next 40 years the number of people aged 60+ in the world, many of whom live in developing regions, will grow by 1 billion.

Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be able to become well informed about this significant--and at times confusing--illness.

This book is about the increasing significance of DNA profiling for crime investigation in modern society.

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI CHILDREN'S & YA BOOK PRIZE'An essential guide' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES'This book is perfect' WENN LAWSON'One of the most important books in autism literature' CHARLOTTE AMELIA POE'Wonderfully diverse and vibrant' FOX FISHERIn this empowering and honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens, Erin Ekins gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality.

Schools and school staff play a critical role in the cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and interpersonal development of children and adolescents.

Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally.

The Career Coaching Toolkit is a practical guide to 34 effective and relevant career coaching techniques to help practitioners encourage, stretch and clarify their clients' thinking.

This second edition brings together an impressive array of experts to discuss and provide understanding to the treatment of infidelity.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years.

Groups are a universal phenomenon, but their dynamics, make-up and customs can vary widely - a group can be anything from a family to a sports club.

Written by a top scholar in the field, Practitioner's Guide to Using Research for Evidence-Based Practice gives essential and practical guidance on how to integrate research appraisal into evidence-based practice endeavors to ensure the best client care.

Sibling sexual abuse is considered to be one of the most common forms of child sexual abuse within the family setting, yet it is often ignored, downplayed or denied in spite the impact on survivors.

An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties.

This comprehensive, go-to volume features cutting edge discussion of the emergency department management of mental health patients.

How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?

The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality.

Services for young children have gone through a period of rapid transformation in recent years, which have been paralleled by great advances in our knowledge of early child development.

There are two tendencies in present public discussions.

Completely revised and updated, the sixth edition of Practicum and Internship is a practical resource that provides students and supervisors with thorough coverage of all stages and aspects of the practicum and internship process.

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

Das Buch will einerseits die Herausforderung der Erlebnispädagogik für ein modernes Verständnis von Bildung und Erziehung ernst nehmen und aufnehmen und andererseits die zumeist wie selbstverständlich vorausgesetzte Symbiose von "Erlebnispädagogik und Kulturkritik" problematisieren, an ihrer Trennung arbeiten und ihre begründbaren und verantwortbaren Theorieentwürfe und Praxisformen in ein modernisiertes Verständnis von Sozialer Arbeit einbringen.

First published in 1997, in this second volume Gould and Moultrie compile writings from various professionals in the public service sector, researchers and other academics in support of the Social Services Research and Development Unit (or SSRADU) at the University of Bath.

Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact.

The entire world is in crisis with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other lifetime trauma at an all-time high.

This book reflects the author's views on NGO development in China and includes recent papers, reviews, and policy suggestions he has written.

In dem vorliegenden Werk geht es um die Bereitschaft von Pflegefachpersonen, Fehler zu melden.

As someone approaches the end of their life, it is vitally important that they receive quality care and support, that their wishes are met, and that they are treated with dignity and respect.

For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures.

This is an interactive self-help workbook and psychological road map to enable survivors of coercive, cultic and spiritual abuse to find healing, recovery and growth.

This book presents an alternative theoretical approach to the study of the transformation of the modern welfare state.

It is vital that coaches have the ability to recognise mental health problems in their clients, enabling them to make an informed decision about whether coaching is appropriate.

Few issues have aroused more heated public debate than that of day care for children of working parents.

The growing use and appreciation of the Common Lectionary (Revised) has stimulated renewed attention to the Christian calendar in its fullness and an enrichment of liturgical worship.

Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance.